From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T02:50:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Importing from YAML

On Sep 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Toby Rodwell wrote:

> Jordan Callicoat wrote:
> ...
>>
>> YAML#load (or its synonym #parse) loads object(s) from a YAML string.
>> Have a look at the docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/YAML.html
>
> Many thanks Jordan.  For anyone interested I've just given it a go and
> the reverse of the above code seems to be quite simply
>
> 	def LoadMyObject
>             myObject = YAML.load_file(self.fileName)
> 	end

No need to assign to a local variable there, since it goes out of  
scope as soon as you leave the method on the next line.

James Edward Gray II